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I see that but this applies to people spending money on new consoles. Digital downloads of back catalogue stuff on new consoles aren't the product that retro gamers are out to buy. It falls into the microtransaction market as it does. It's much like music and vinyl purists. Record companies aren't losing sales to the vinyl collectors if a release isn't still available on vinyl anymore. Those are sales they'll never make to those people unless they re-release that music on vinyl again. Meanwhile, those collectors are buying used copies on vinyl any way they can. That's the product they want for the hardware they love. 'You can't buy what they're not selling' is a phrase I use to best explain this stuff. It applies to game cartridges, vinyls and even vegetarian food. I remember being in KFC and two women walking out because they couldn't buy a vegetarian meal. Until KFC offer better options than corn on the cob with fries, vegetarians will buy their food elsewhere.

I think you've missed the joke here. Very few people have a rare collection, hence the name. I'm not going to get into this too much because everyone makes their own opinions and decisions, but here's the facts... It would be nice if the SNES library was still available to buy on legit, new cartridges but that's not how it works. Nintendo are big business and are out to sell their current console and new games in the highest numbers. The SNES was three decades ago. People that will still pay good money for those cartridges are a small minority. They wouldn't sell very well, so they don't make them. You can't buy what they're not selling. This kind of piracy isn't the same as illegally downloading new games that fund the future of the industry. The developers that made SNES games got paid for that in the 90s and making SNES games isn't a real job anymore. The industry made its money from the SNES when it was a current console and moved on as it needed to. Buying used copies of SNES games is legal but none of that money goes back to the developers or companies that own those games. They don't gain or lose any money from that. Equally, they don't gain or lose money from people playing roms on an Everdrive. Make your moral decisions accordingly.

My SNES was a Christmas gift from my parents to eight year old me in 1992 with Street Fighter II and WWF Super Wrestlemania. Super Mario World quickly became my favourite months later.

So, I've got the Atari Flashback games running on Super Nintendo. I've made a video explaining everything...

I've been playing Atari Pitfall on SNES and it's still a fun game that brings back a of memories. For those that don't know, it's possible to play this using a code in Pitfall The Mayan Adventure on the title screen for both SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis... although SNES is more convenient since you only have to press 'A' six times instead of twenty six (TWENTY SIX!!, no more, no less!) on the Sega version. As far as I'm aware, this is the only 2600 game that has seen any kind of appearance on the SNES. Please let me know if I'm wrong or if any homebrew projects make 2600 games possible on a real SNES console. More to the point, it's now possible to play NES games on an original SNES using Project Nested. I won't explain all that (long story!) but it's basically a program for Windows where you can input a NES roms and it outputs a SNES roms that you can then run on a real SNES console using a basic, cheap Everdrive cartridge and an SD card. Backwards compatibility for SNES is now possible in 2021!! We're living in the retro future here. This is the part that opens up more possibilities to play Atari 2600 games on the SNES. I'm aware that the first Atari Flashback console was really running NES ports of Atari 2600 games. It was based on cheap NES-on-a-chip (aka NOAC) technology but, from what I've read, it seems it was also using a custom NES mapper to do this. To explain that briefly, mappers were originally additional chips in NES cartridges to make the console run games that it otherwise couldn't do. In more modern times, people have created virtual versions of mappers to run NES games on NOAC, emulators etc. The trouble with custom mappers is that they aren't supported by Project Nested yet (it's still a new thing). So, that's why I'm here and reaching out to people in the know. Are there any 2600 games that have been ported to NES by homebrewers? I've read that there have been such things in Russia but I've hit walls trying to find these. Any help on that (what to search for etc) would be much appreciated. Some people might be wondering 'why would you want to do that?' and my answer is 'because I like to explore possibilities'. There are countless ways of playing 2600 games on a modern TV but that doesn't apply so much to using 90s consoles for that. And sure, using a port isn't quite the same as making SNES play an actual 2600 rom but it doesn't need to be. For me, the only truly authentic way of playing 2600 games is with an original console and a very old CRT TV. Replicating the experience on modern TVs will always have different kinds of compromises.